REPLICATION INFORMATION

These replication files allow one to replicate the tables, figures, and results reported in Bagozzi & Berliner's
	"The Politics of Scrutiny in Human Rights Monitoring: Evidence from Structural Topic Models of U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports," 
	as well as those reported in its Supplemental Appendix.

This folder includes:

1. A "Dataset" subfolder, which contains the primary dataset used in all analyses.

2. A "Primary Analysis" subfolder, which contains the necessary R-code for replicating all primary analyses reported in the main paper, including
	the analyses and results corresponding to Figures 1-3 in the main paper. Note here that "Main15TopicModel" in this folder stores the primary
	R workspace from this analysis (i.e., from Main_Analysis_and_Figure_1.R) and can be used to generate Figures 1-3 without estimating the main STM model.
	Finally, note that the "Figures 2-3 and Figures A.16-A.26.R" script also generates Figures A.16-A.26 (which are reported in the Supplemental Appendix).

3. A "Supplemental Appendix" subfolder, which contains the R-code and output (including R workspaces) needed the replicating all robustness models, analyses, and results
	reported in the Supplemental Appendix (aside from Figures A.16-A.26 and Figure A.46, which are provided in items 2 and 4, see above and below).

4. A "Topic Prevalance" subfolder, which contains (1) R-code for re-estimating our primary 15-topic model in a manner that allows one to generate the yearly measures of
	"topical attention shifts" that we mention are provided as a supplement to our paper in the conclusion, (2) the actual "topical attention shifts" measures that this code extracts,
	and (3) the R-code that uses these "topical attention shifts" measures for generating Figure A.46 (labeled "yearplots_proportion.pdf").

Please contact Benjamin E. Bagozzi at bagozzib@udel.edu for any questions about these data.

